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WoodpeckeŽ
Member
07-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:17 pm
It's the Dysfunctional Family on display. I was trying to imagine Dick as my Dad. Ha!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:18 pm
Oh, you know we love to beat the dead horses around here, Earthmother!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:18 pm
i have finally had a chance to watch TEAGATE and was most amused that is wasn't at all as i had imagined. dick was not screaming or yelling at jen as i had expected. he calmly walked over to her and dumped the tea on her head. it was nick that was doing the most verbalizing. what i do find sad is that nick does not appear to staying true to who he is but instead seems to be trying to imitate dick. and, that i find sad.
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Joyfuld
Member
08-16-2005
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:18 pm
Oh I see a woodpecker First name I recognize other than Earthmother. Hello to you two.
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WoodpeckeŽ
Member
07-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:20 pm
Hello, Joyfuld. Nice to see you, too.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:20 pm
Hey to you Joyfuld. So has Dick been a good boy today or are we still beating the dead horse Hermione?
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WoodpeckeŽ
Member
07-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:22 pm
As long as Dick is still in the game, it's not a "dead horse".
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:22 pm
Rumor has it that he has toned it down! I don't get the live feeds because of my deafness, but that's what people are saying.
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Joyfuld
Member
08-16-2005
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:22 pm
Earthmom I do not have live feeds so I come here to catch up. I personally am still beating the dead horse from yesterday. I just can not seem to stop. Thanks Woody
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:23 pm
LOL, Woodpecker. Yeah, I do have to say that if I had a dad that talked like that, I would be in therapy for, well, ever.
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WoodpeckeŽ
Member
07-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:24 pm
If Dick's actions were perfectly acceptable before today, why would he need to "tone it down"?
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:26 pm
Hey Hermie, looks like Real Player can do closed captioning. I don't know about the BB feeds, if they are different or not, but I just Googled and found this: http://websavvy-access.org/resources/real_demo.php
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:31 pm
Quote from Vincent about his father on SS.. "I do not in any way condone or support that kind of behavior." http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm13.showMessageRange?topicID=10884.topic&start=2601&stop=2620
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:33 pm
I watched the show for the 2nd time this season last night and I found Dick pretty disturbing. I realize alot of it is in the editing but still. The man has control issues to say the least.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:34 pm
Really now? I probably didn't need to know that. I don't really need another addiction in my life, ROFL! But thank you!! I will check it out. The thing about closed captioning, though, is it usually needs to be two-fold... the show/program needs to do it AND the display device (TV, computer, portable DVD player...) needs to do it. I don't know that CBS would caption the live feeds. It would be a huge headache for them to have four people captioning live four feeds 24-7 for 3 months. It might be great for news clips, though. CNN and MSNBC should caption the videos they put on their website. Sorry to get OT. I don't think we need a whole thread for this. 
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:35 pm
oh, gosh, i would never condone or support that kind of behavior in real life either. this is just a reality game show with limited rules and the hgs sign away their rights. and, dick is seems to have been selected to play a certain part in the game.
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:37 pm
I have not heard one person on these boards who said they condoned his behavior, what we have said is that we have not seen it as abusive.
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WoodpeckeŽ
Member
07-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:39 pm
Is it isn't abusive in any way, what is it? Cute? Amusing? Endearing? Exciting? Sexy? Loving? Clever? Quirky?......
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Jeanne
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:39 pm
Earthmother ... I think for some, not seeing the behaviour as abusive = condoning.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:40 pm
"I realize alot of it is in the editing but still." Unfortunately, the editing makes him look a hundred times better than he actually is.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:40 pm
It's not "condoning". It's "denial". 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:41 pm
Even if they were told to "ramp it up" for Showtime (is there evidence for that?), everyone has their own personal moral indicator. Not everyone is behaving like Dick is. My analogy about Dick and his behavior, and the Justin and Krista incident was to invalidate the claim that if no one is actually hurt or scared, the behavior is okay. And also to invalidate any claim that "it's just a game", so anything is okay if it doesn't result in actual physical harm. Words do harm people, and physical threats do harm as well. The Journal of Psychiatry recently published a study that shows that threats of harm and verbal intimidation among prisoners of war resulted in the SAME rate of PTSD as did actual physical torture. Now before I get misconstrued, I'm NOT saying they are prisoners of war, or saying they are being tortured as in war. I am only claiming that verbal threats and intimidation carry the same mental repercussions to the recipient as actually being physically attacked. It doesn't matter if it's a game. Geez, all of these people cry enough and get frustrated and stressed and angry and confused and upset enough for us to know that their feelings within the game are quite real.
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Jeanne
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:45 pm
Sanfran ... far as I know, we are all entitled to have our opinion here and I don't think because it differs that it means people are in "denial." That reads like a label to me.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:46 pm
I put a smiley face there to indicate I was not serious. Sorry you didn't get that. edited to add - Mods, feel free to remove my wisecrack....looks like it was misunderstood.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 5:56 pm
and, for the majority of the folks that signed up for this game, they had seen previous years and should have known ahead of time that emotions would be a big part of it. and, that there was a strong possibility that another hg would play upon their weaknesses and emotions. all gameplay to me.
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